Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
GASTON BACHELARDMan is an imagining being.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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